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DUCHESS HARRIS, PhD, JD
MIRIAM (Duchess) HARRIS by DALE RICARDO SHIELDS “I wouldn’t trade nothing for my journey now.“ Dr. Harris is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Macalester College. She joined the faculty in 1998 and has expertise in 20th-century political history, feminist theory, and race and the law. “The more powerful and original a mind, the …
Antone Pagán
Antone Pagán Actor, Director, Producer, and Writer by Dale Ricardo Shields Antone Pagán was raised in Harlem, New York. He has been a member of the famed Actors Studio since the late 1980s and was recently appointed to the studio’s membership committee. He listed among his Actors Studio mentors, Paul Calderon, Frank Corsaro, Lee Grant, …
Leigh Whipper
Leigh Whipper By Dale Shields Leigh Whipper the first Black member of the Actors’ Equity Association (1913) * Born in (1876) Charleston, South Carolina, died (1975) New York City, New York. “Although a strong presence in the (still extant) Oscar Micheaux drama Symbol of the Unconquered (1920), gaunt-looking African-American performer Leigh Whipper had …
John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin 1915-2009 Archived by Dale Ricardo Shields “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey;” ― John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an …